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Wesley Addy (4 August 1913 – 31 December 1996) was an American actor.
On television, he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, in the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich wanted him as supporting actor in several pictures, like Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict.
Addy was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death.
He appeared with actor Maurice Evans on Broadway in several of Evans' productions of Shakespeare plays.







